[racket-dev] racket/date, SRFI-19, date construction

> Second, the date structure used by racket/date has some seemingly
> extraneous fields. For example, `week-day` and `year-day` can be
> calculated from the rest of the fields and aren't necessary (this is
> annoying if you want to construct your own dates manually).

I've been confused by this in the past as well.



>
> Changing the structure is clearly a non-solution, but how about
> exporting a different `make-date` constructor that makes `week-day`,
> `year-day`, `dst?`, and `time-zone-offset` optional and default to
> something sensible?
>
> Note: in the long run, it's probably best to have a comprehensive
> srfi/19 replacement in racket/date, but in the meantime it'd be nice to
> have a stopgap measure.
>
> Cheers,
> Asumu
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